[tpm] Subroutine arcana

arocker at vex.net arocker at vex.net
Mon May 21 09:18:18 PDT 2007


Thanks to everyone for the help on this topic, especially Jim Graham for
the code examples. (In any discussion of programming topics, a functioning
example beats 4 aces AND a Smith & Wesson.)

My mistakes were:

1. Believing what my course notes said, without verifying them. How many
innocent minds have I corrupted?
2. Not replacing the 2nd Edition Camel with the 3rd, which did mention
nesting subroutines. (Confirmed from a CD version.)
3. Assuming that defining an anonymous subroutine would cause it to be
executed at definition time. (If you assign the result of a function to a
scalar, the function gets evaluated. An anonymous subroutine definition
looks like a function, but it just assigns the subroutine's reference to
the scalar.)

Oh well, egg is said to be good for the complexion.






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